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...hard to get much lower-tech than the laboratory of psychologist Sam Putnam at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The equipment here is strictly five-and-dime--soap bubbles, Halloween masks, noisemakers--but the work Putnam is doing is something else entirely. On any given day, the lab bustles with toddlers who come to play with his toys and be observed while they do so. Some of the children rush at the bubbles, delight at the noise toys, squeal with pleasure when a staff member dons a mask. Others stand back, content to observe. Others...
...looking for something that might further explain his results. The shy children, he found, had one or two shorter copies of a gene that codes for the flow of the brain chemical serotonin, a neurotransmitter that plays a role in anxiety, depression and other mood states. Battaglia's lab is not the only one to have linked this gene to shyness, and while nobody pretends it's the entire answer, most researchers believe it at least plays a role. "People who carry the short variant of the gene are, in general, a little more shy and reactive to stress," says...
...keeping up both aspects of my life, but I slept only four hours at night," she says. "I didn't see a movie or go to the ballet until my first child was 10 years old." And at least she was not expected to spend long nights in a lab, but could work at the kitchen table while her girls played in the next room...
...Texas scientists wondered whether they could take advantage of that existing defense system and use the transformed B cells as cancer alarm bells. By customizing EBV-infected B cells with proteins specific to certain cancers, they could grow killer T cells in the lab that are trained to fight those specialized B cells. The T cells would then be able to find and destroy malignant cells as if they were just another cell infected with a virus...
...painfully difficult for ordinary computer users to reach the Internet. Not only did they need a PC, a modem to connect it to the phone line and a passing familiarity with something called Unix, but they could get on only with the cooperation of a university or government research lab...